Yes, you can find the Hilbert Hotel story in Gamow's entertaining "One TwoThree...Infinity", first published in 1947. Gamow's footnoted attributionreads "From the unpublished, and never even written, but widely circulatingvolume: "The Complete Collection of Hilbert Stories", by R. Courant".

John Bell

Professor John L. BellDepartment of PhilosophyUniversity of Western OntarioLondon, OntarioCanada N6A 3K7